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    Before They Were President

    Who was kicked out of Dickinson College for breaking the rules?Before Becoming President

      James Buchanan.

    Who told his students (when he was a teacher) that one day he would be president?Before Becoming President

      Lyndon Johnson.

    Who married his teacher?Before Becoming President

      Millard Fillmore.

    Who almost became a minister, but his annoying voice drove him to politics instead?Before Becoming President

      James Madison.

    Who led a revolt against his tyrannical schoolmaster at age 11?Before Becoming President

      John Tyler.

    Who was given a farm he named 'Hardscrabble' by his step-father?Before Becoming President

      Ulysses Grant.

    Who wore a suit and tie to high school and once worked at Yellowstone as a ranger?Before Becoming President

      Gerald Ford.

    Who begged his father when only 10 to let him accompany his father to France on a diplomatic mission?Before Becoming President

      John Quincy Adams.

    Who, on a trip to Maine, was tormented by two boys and was so ashamed his father built him a gym so he could get stronger?Before Becoming President

      Theodore Roosevelt.

    Who was born in a farming state and picked potato bugs to earn money to buy fireworks?Before Becoming President

      Herbert Hoover.

    Who was more interested in cock fighting than studying?Before Becoming President

      Andrew Jackson.

    Who had a father who refused to attend his son's wedding because his daughter-in-law's father, a prosperous man in St. Louis, owned three slaves?Before Becoming President

      Ulysses Grant.

    Who was a lawyer that defended the civil rights of blacks and won a case establishing the rights of blacks to ride any streetcar in New York City?Before Becoming President

      Chester Arthur.

    Who was friends with writer Nathaniel Hawthorne?Before Becoming President

      Franklin Pierce.

    Who had a reputation as a flirt and while engaged wrote a love letter to his best friend's wife, Sally Fairfax?Before Becoming President

      George Washington.

    Whose parents belonged to a religious group which opposed war or violence of any kind?Before Becoming President

      Dwight Eisenhower. They were members of the Church of the Brethren in Christ. They were not thrilled with their son's decision to go to West Point, but allowed him to choose his own career.

    Who paid a sub to take his place in the Civil War?Before Becoming President

      Grover Cleveland. It was not an uncommon practice, but Cleveland did catch some heat for it.

    Who became homesick when sent to school at 11 and walked 14 miles home, but his father drove him 7 miles back and left him to walk the remaining 7 miles?Before Becoming President

      Franklin Pierce.

    Who had a mother that died of 'milk sickness' when he was 9?Before Becoming President

      Abraham Lincoln. Milk sickness was thought to be caused by poison in the milk of cows eating snakeroot.

    Who had a mother that kept track of her many children (health, school, etc.) via a system of index cards?Before Becoming President

      John Kennedy.

    Who was called 'Tommy' as a child?Before Becoming President

      Woodrow Wilson. His given first name was 'Thomas' but he dropped it later.

    Who was refused entry into West Point due to poor eyesight and spent 15 years paying back debt after his clothing business failed?Before Becoming President

      Harry Truman.

    Who left home at 16, inspired by adventurous books to be a sailor on the Great Lakes, but gave up when a ship captain cursed him and drove him away?Before Becoming President

      James Garfield.

    Who saw two brothers die (one of tuberculosis and one of meningitis) because his family couldn't afford medical care?Before Becoming President

      Richard Nixon. He was particularly disturbed by his beloved older brother's death from tuberculosis.

    Who hated chemistry so much he put a bottle of bad smelling hydrogen sulfide in a teacher's desk and as an adult called teaching the 'hardest job I ever had'?Before Becoming President

      Warren Harding.

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